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Hunt for Greatness
Milton Kamwendo
Whatever you celebrate appreciates in value to you. Live a life of celebration and intentionally choose the frames that you use to look at the experiences you pass through. The meaning you attach to any event determines your level of motivation.
As you walk through the experiences of life guard your heart, manage your emotion and positively channel your energy. You will either grow better or bitter depending on your frame of mind, and fidelity of spirit. Take every opportunity to celebrate positively, engage people and explore possibilities.
Celebrate the high points because these show you that you can rise to greatness. Celebrate the ordinary moments, for you will never pass this way again.
Celebrate the low moments, because they strengthen your spirit, inspire hope and build your capacity for greatness. Celebrate the challenging times, because they bring out the lion in you and prompt you to think big.
Celebrate the people around you, because they are holding your ladder and help you to grow.
Do not stop believing and growing. Do not stop trying and moving. Do not stop asking: “If!”
Mr. Rudyard Kipling, bequeathed to us the precious poem entitled: “If.” The poem reads:
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!”
If you can embrace the ethos of: “If” you will live a life of celebration. You will see value in each moment and experience. You will boldly dare great things and celebrate while others complain and groan.
Live every moment as a celebration and song of possibilities. You do not have to wait to come to the end of your life to celebrate. Celebrate and value each moment.
Extract all the juice in each moment. Enjoy your journeys as well as the progress you make towards your destinations. Break your greatness goals into micro-battles and celebrate each victory and milestone.
All of us know one person or other, near or far, relative, friend or friend that died perhaps recently or in the distant past and you were gutted.
Death and birth are the order of human life, so is pain and pleasure. We come into the world crying and the whole world rejoicing. By the time we check out some are crying, others rejoicing and others simply do not care what happened. So what are we to do?
Celebrate every moment
Let gratitude be in every breath you take. Every moment you have the privilege to live is an opportunity for celebration – of life, opportunity, learning or connection. Life takes on a different hue you celebrate each moment and drink deeply from the calabash.
There is nothing like a dull or ordinary moment in life. It is all a matter of perception. This is my John Milton said in Paradise Lost: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” Live a life of gratitude because everything that happens to you is a special present.
Every moment has a different and unique signature on time. No two days can ever be the same.
Every moment you live is etching history on your timeline.
Your attitude to life determines the motivational power that you carry. Live a life of celebration and gratitude.
Count your blessings even in the midst of your darkest valley. For it is in those moments that the stars shine brightest and revelations of destiny abound.
Celebrate your past and your future. Welcome your dreams and visions. Translate thought into things, intentions into realities. Celebrate your power to manifest great things.
Celebrate People
Every person you meet is special, unique and worthy of respect and celebration. Every person that walks into your life is a special gift to you. Celebrate the cast in your life’s play like they are mega-stars. The whole world may not think so but who cares. Every person is a special gift – celebrate them. Do not wait for people to be gone for you to thank them.
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